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Alexanderplatz
Alexanderplatz

"Alex" to Berliners, a cattle market in the Middle Ages, a military parade square and an exercise ground for nearby barracks until the mid 19th century - Alexanderplatz is the square named to honour Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, on his visit to Berlin in 1805.

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Alte Nationalgalerie
Alte Nationalgalerie

The Alte National Galerie houses one of the most important collections of 19th century painting in Germany and includes masterpieces by Caspar David Friedrich, Adolph Menzel Edouard Manet Claude Monet, not to mention Auguste Renoir and Auguste Rodin.

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Altes Museum
Altes Museum

Altes Museum The Altes Museum (Old Museum) is Berlin's oldest museum. It is part of the UNESCO-listed heritage site known as Museum Island opposite the Lustgarten in Berlin's eastern city centre.

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AquaDom
AquaDom

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Bebelplatz
Bebelplatz

Bebelplatz is a public square at Unter den Linden boulevard in the Mitte district in Berlin. It was the site of the notorious Nazi book burning in 1933.

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Bellevue Palace
Bellevue Palace

Bellevue Palace on the banks of the Spree in Berlin-Tiergarten is the official residence of the Federal President of Germany.

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Berlin Cathedral
Berlin Cathedral

Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom), completed in 1905, is Berlin's largest and most important Protestant church as well as the sepulchre of the Prussian Hohenzollern dynasty.

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Berlin Palace
Berlin Palace

The Berlin Palace (German: Berliner Schloss or Stadtschloss), also known as the Berlin City Palace, is a building in the centre of Berlin, located on the Museum Island at Schlossplatz, opposite the Lustgarten park.

Berlin Victory Column
Berlin Victory Column

The Victory Column with Victoria, the Goddess of Victory in the centre of the Tiergarten is one of Berlin's most famous landmarks and a popular tourist spot.

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Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall

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Berlin Zoological Garden
Berlin Zoological Garden

Welcome to Zoo Berlin! Zoo Berlin is Germany’s oldest zoological garden and home to the world’s largest variety of species. Almost 20,000 animals of around 1,400 species live in the 33-hectare zoo.

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Berlin Zoologischer Garten Railway Station
Berlin Zoologischer Garten Railway Station

Berlin Zoologischer Garten Station (German: Bahnhof Berlin Zoologischer Garten, colloquially Bahnhof Zoo) is a railway station in Berlin, Germany. It is located on the Berlin Stadtbahn railway line in the Charlottenburg district, adjacent to the Berlin Zoo.

Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum
Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum

The Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum (German: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem) is a botanical garden in the German capital city of Berlin, with an area of 43 hectares and around 22,000 different plant species.

Bode Museum
Bode Museum

The baroque Bode Museum, the fourth museum to be built as part of Berlin’s Museum Island on the Spree was completed in 1904. It was designed by court architect Ernst von Ihne under Kaiser Wilhelm II.

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Brandenburg Gate
Brandenburg Gate

The Brandenburg Gate is one of Berlin's most important monuments – a landmark and symbol all in one with over two hundred years of history. A former symbol of the divided city, it drew visitors who used to climb an observation platform in order to get a glimpse of the world behind the Iron Curtain, on the other side of the barren "death-strip" which separated East from West Berlin, geographically and politically.

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Cecilienhof
Cecilienhof

Cecilienhof Palace (German: Schloss Cecilienhof) is a palace in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany built from 1914 to 1917 in the layout of an English Tudor manor house. Cecilienhof was the last palace built by the House of Hohenzollern that ruled the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire until the end of World War I.

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Charlottenburg Palace
Charlottenburg Palace

Charlottenburg Palace (German: Schloss Charlottenburg) is the largest palace in Berlin, Germany. It is in the Charlottenburg district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough. The palace was built at the end of the 17th century and was greatly expanded during the 18th century.

Checkpoint Charlie
Checkpoint Charlie

Checkpoint Charlie was the best-known border crossing between East and West Berlin during the Cold War. At the height of the Berlin Crisis in 1961 U.S. and Soviet tanks faced each other here. At the height of the Berlin Crisis in 1961 U.S. and Soviet tanks faced each other here.

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Checkpoint Charlie Museum
Checkpoint Charlie Museum

The Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt Medal is an international human rights award set up by Alexandra Hildebrandt in 2004 to commemorate the 90th birthday of her late husband, Dr. Rainer Hildebrandt, the founder of the Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie.

DDR Museum
DDR Museum

The DDR Museum provides a unique visitor experience, making it one of Berlin’s most popular museums. Engage all of your senses to enjoy an immersive experience of everyday life in the former East Germany.

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Deutsches Historisches Museum
Deutsches Historisches Museum

Museum shop. Onlineshop. ... Deutsches Historisches Museum . Unter den Linden 2 10117 Berlin. Tel. +49 30 20304-0. ... fuehrung@dhm.de. Permanent exhibition.

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East Side Gallery
East Side Gallery

The East Side Gallery is a 1.3 kilometre long painted stretch of the former Berlin Wall along Mühlenstraße in former East Berlin. It is the largest open-air gallery in the world with over one hundred original mural paintings.

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Fernsehturm
Fernsehturm

The Fernsehturm (English: Television Tower) is a television tower in central Berlin, Germany. Close to Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte, the tower was constructed between 1965-69 by the government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

French Cathedral, Berlin
French Cathedral, Berlin

The French Cathedral is one of three major buildings at Gendarmenmarkt, along with the Konzerthaus and Deutscher Dom. It was erected as a place of worship for French Huguenots.

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Friedrichstraße
Friedrichstraße

Friedrichstraße in the heart of Berlin is home to fashion stores for international luxury and high street brands, books, jewellery and upscale home decor.

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Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer
Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer

The Documentation Centre known as Dokumentationszentrum Berliner Mauer is an important source of information and an original documentary source/archive devoted to the history of the Berlin Wall.

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Gendarmenmarkt
Gendarmenmarkt

Gendarmenmarkt in the Mitte district is arguably Berlin's most beautiful square. It is the site of three impressive buildings: The German and the French Cathedral and Schinkel's Konzerthaus.

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Jewish Museum, Berlin
Jewish Museum, Berlin

© Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Foto: Günter Schneider The zinc-paneled building is truly innovative in the connection it creates between the museum's themes and its architecture. Libeskind has dubbed his design "Between the Lines", a title which reflects the tensions of German-Jewish history.

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Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

The Gedächtniskirche or Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is the symbolic centre of West Berlin, an anti-war memorial to peace and reconciliation. Following allied bombing during WWII, the original west Tower has remained standing as a ruin and is hauntingly named the "hollow tooth" as it is literally an empty husk.

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Kaufhaus des Westens
Kaufhaus des Westens

Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe), 2013 The Kaufhaus des Westens (English "Department Store of the West"), usually abbreviated to KaDeWe, is a department store in Berlin. With over 60,000 square metres of selling space and more than 380,000 articles available, it is the second largest department store in Europe after Harrods in London.

Mauerpark
Mauerpark

Every Sunday the flea market at Mauerpark in Prenzlauer Berg gets packed with a crowd of tourists and Berliners looking for secondhand clothes, vintage bags and jewellery.

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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold.

Museum Island
Museum Island

Berlin's Museumsinsel (Museum Island) is a unique ensemble of five museums, including the Pergamon Museum - built on a small island in Berlin's Spree River between 1824 and 1930. A cultural and architectural monument of great significance, it was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status in 1999.

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Neue Kirche, Berlin
Neue Kirche, Berlin

The Neue Kirche (English: New Church; colloquially Deutscher Dom, i.e., German Church), is located in Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt across from French Church of Friedrichstadt (French Church).

Neue Wache,
Neue Wache,

The Neue Wache in Berlin is the central memorial for the victims of war and dictatorship. Find out more about its history at visitBerlin.de.

Neues Museum
Neues Museum

The Neues Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island was opened in 1859 to bring relief to the over-popular and over-crowded Altes Museum. It was one of the most ambitious building projects of its time due to its use of new industrial construction technologies such as the steam engine.

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New Palace
New Palace

The Berlin Palace (German: Berliner Schloss or Stadtschloss), also known as the Berlin City Palace, is a building in the centre of Berlin, located on the Museum Island at Schlossplatz, opposite the Lustgarten park.

Oberbaum Bridge
Oberbaum Bridge

Oberbaum Bridge is a double-deck bridge over the River Spree and one of Berlin's landmarks. It connects the formerly divided districts of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain.

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Pariser Platz
Pariser Platz

Pariser Platz is a square in the centre of Berlin, Germany, situated by the Brandenburg Gate at the end of the Unter den Linden. The square is named after the French capital Paris in honour of the anti-Napoleon Allies' occupation of Paris in 1814, and is one of the main focal points of the city.

Pergamon Museum
Pergamon Museum

The Pergamon, located on Museum Island, is really three museums in one – the Collection of Classical Antiquities (also on display in the Old Museum), the Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Museum of Islamic Art.

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Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz

Berlin's Potsdamer Platz is the most striking example of the urban renewal that turned Berlin into the "New Berlin" in the 1990s although it is not, strictly-speaking, a square.

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Reichstag Building
Reichstag Building

The Reichstag building with the famous glass dome is one of the most frequently visited sights in Berlin. It is seat of the German parliament, the Bundestag.

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Rotes Rathaus
Rotes Rathaus

The Red Town Hall (Rotes Rathaus), located in the Mitte district near Alexanderplatz, is one of Berlin's most famous landmarks. It is seat of the Governing Mayor and the Senate of Berlin.

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Sanssouci
Sanssouci

Sanssouci is located in Potsdam, just outside of Berlin, and is easily accessible by public transportation and car. The site, which stretches out for 2 kilometers west of Potsdam’s city center, is open later from Spring to Fall; music festivals are held annually on the grounds.

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Sanssouci Park
Sanssouci Park

Sanssouci Park The garden at the base of the terraces is baroque in style, with a large, central fountain. In the nineteenth century, Peter Joseph Lenné, Prussia’s leading landscape gardener, was commissioned to lay out the spreading park grounds.

Spree
Spree

Spree Berlin The Spree River runs through Saxony, Brandenburg, and Berlin and is the river on which the centre of the city was built. It’s around 400 kilometres long, beautiful and definitely worth a lazy afternoon of sightseeing on or around it.

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Teufelsberg
Teufelsberg

Teufelsberg (help · info) (German for Devil's Mountain) is a man-made hill in Berlin, Germany, in the Grunewald locality of former West Berlin. It rises about 80 metres (260 ft) above the surrounding Teltow plateau and 120.1 metres (394 ft) above the sea level, in the north of Berlin's Grunewald Forest.

Tiergarten
Tiergarten

Tiergarten in Berlin refers to the parliamentary, government and diplomatic district as well as to Berlin's largest and most popular inner-city park. The Tiergarten (animal park) and former hunting ground is Berlin's best known park because of its centrality.

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Topography of Terror
Topography of Terror

The Topography of Terror (German: Topographie des Terrors) is an outdoor and indoor history museum in Berlin, Germany.

Unter den Linden
Unter den Linden

Unter den Linden runs east–west from the site of the Stadtschloss royal palace at the Lustgarten park, where the demolished Palace of the Republic once stood, to Pariser Platz and Brandenburg Gate. Eastward the boulevard crosses the Spree river at Berlin Cathedral and continues as Karl-Liebknecht-Straße.

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